Creston Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2013-10-04
issued: 1930-08-01
description: All the News of the Creston District
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note: /���������< * 'If. : ���������B������������5B--!HBMHtW ... V ^>> ja _S. T-Sk ,___ --flS^, Jp ��������� ��������� ��������� ; i. ^-?i-S{?t ft 11 idr t <������?%*& VlMlY ���������IT*.- > Uli. _:_>V_.JLX. CBESTON, B. Q.; TlifiH__aSw__������ 3I9 1930 No. 22 Promising .Area Adjuini Creston Arrow-Kid Creek Section Grows Excellent Fruit, Vegetables. Hay, Grain���������Great Dairying Acreage ���������Hathaway Develops Someone has said, "It is a good thing to stop once in a -while and size things up," and the axiom is one of considerable merit at this time when Creston is giving much thought to district development and expansion, and recognising that continued and increased prosperity must chiefly come froni activities in the way of production from the land. And with any such development comparatively easy access to rail transportation must have consideration with demonstrated productive qualities of so;^���������wi}h emphasis on the 'demonstrated/ For about five years now practical attention to ascertaining the productive possibilities of the lands to the east of Creston in what is now better known as the Hathaway development���������between Arrow and Kid Creeks���������in the Goat River valley, with Kitchener as centre; has demonstrated that in that section are i ____������__ Nowlin on the high bench, where strawberries in commercial quantities are successfully grown and marketed; plum trees carrying a full load of green fruit are in evidence; and pears, cherries, apples and quinces as thrifty as one will see anywhere; and most everything in the way of gardentruck. ��������� Along ths main highway almost directly below the Simpson place, is the Elmer Blair ranch, where the same excellent growth is noted in strawberries and vegetables, the latter inch-ding, head lettuce that for size and texture certainly equals the imported article. Throughout this block experiments have been tried out with fall rye, oats and timothy, and with the farmer straw six feet high, was in evidenc…
note: Print Run: 1909-1983 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Creston (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0174434
language: English
lat: 49.0975
long: -116.5130560
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Creston, B.C. : Creston Printing and Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text